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October 29, 2025

Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino is Trump's Heinrich Himmler only without the SS skull on his hat. Considering Trump's obsession with optics he's done quite well. Hitler in contrast didn't give a hoot about how his henchmen looked.

The article is about U.S. District Court Judge Sara Ellis saying that federal agents must issue two warnings if they determine that crowds pose a risk. It notes that on Friday, “she ordered Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino to personally appear in court this week after he appeared to violate that order, which barred agents from deploying teargas and other weapons against journalists, protesters, and anyone not posing a threat.”

I highlighted three words in the caption to the photo they used: “a police officer” because the man shown with the pepper ball gun is obviously not a police officer. Police officers do not dress like this and wear masks under normal circumstances. It is one of Trump’s enforcment thugs from who knows what agency. All we really know about him is that he likely works out a lot to have massive shoulders and biceps. This, to people like Pete Hegseth, qualifies one to be a soldier. Perhaps Bovino thinks along these lines as well:

Here’s more about him from TPM:

Excerpt:

Bovino himself has a flair for performance. He calls his sector of the U.S.-Mexico border the “premier sector” in flashy, internet-friendly videos. In one, he threatens undocumented border-crossers with an “all-expenses paid trip to Guantanamo Bay.” On X (even his handle is written to tout his rank: @CMDROpAtLargeCA) he cultivates support among right-wing influencers while lashing out at Democratic politicians and sparring with random users who criticize him as an authoritarian; those interlocutors have ranged from actor Henry Winkler to an account with five followers.
Bovino combines Bull Connor’s aggression with Don King’s showmanship: a man willing to oversee violent, aggressive operations like Chicago’s “Midway Blitz” but, just as critically, to promote the fight to as many people as possible.
What’s made Bovino’s tactics so shocking to local officials and observers across the country is not just the way they merge military-style operations with immigration enforcement, but the way in which the spectacle itself is intensely calibrated. It often involves sending CBP and ICE employees to perform work for which they are not trained: the CBP does not prepare its employees for urban policing or crowd control, Kerlikowske said. It’s a different mission from what many officers joined to do, he added.
He’s also been open about something that most law enforcement officials would strenuously deny: he applies racial appearance in law enforcement decisions. He told WBEZ, a Chicago radio station, that people are detained based on “how they look.”

Adolph didn’t give a hoot about how his henchmen looked or how hunky they were the way Trump does. If he did he wouldn’t have had Himmler as the head of the SS:

For that matter, this picture doesn’t look like it was taken in front of a Nazi version of Gold’s Gym:

Leaders conference of the NSDAP in Bad Elster. From left to right in the front row, Heinrich Himmler, Wilhelm Frick, Adolf Hitler, Franz von Epp, Hermann Göring, in the second row, Martin Mutschmann, Joseph Goebbels, Julius Schaub, in the third row, Karl Fritsch. Not pictured is Adolph Eichmann:

Here’s another group photo which includes Heinrich Müller (head of the Gestapo) along with other high Nazi leaders:

None of Hitler’s cadre of ruthless psychopaths had to appear on Fox News or other media to audition for their role in the Reich. I have to begrudingly give Trump credit nonetheless for putting together a Hitlerian assembly who are managing to help him institute a police state in far less time than it took the Führer.

See yesterday's Substack

July 31, 2025

Trump is the death president. Where are the human interest stories about people whose lives were distrupted or destroyed by Trump? By Hal M. Brown

We see videos of people being brutalized and treated as less than human by Trump’s immigrant hunting Gestapo. See, for example, “'Hard or easy?' ICE agents seen using terrifying new tactic to detain immigrants.”

With notable exceptions like the few lucky people who came back after being brutalized in the Salvadoran prison of horrors, we don’t learn about how their lives are destroyed after they are disappeared.

These are the dramatic tales, but we also have untold stories about another group of people who weren’t literally grabbed up by masked Gestapo.

(The actual Nazi Gestapo didn’t need to hide their identities. Nobody would dare go after them at home. Wait for this being a crime punished by summary execution here.)

Far less dramatic are the stories of how the lives of federal employees fired by the DOGE Boys and overall downsizing of federal agencies have been disrupted.

The media looks at how the work of agencies is effected, a how in a few cases the government scrambled to rehired fired staff.

Depending on where you look the numbers of people who lost their jobs because of DOGE start at a low of 130,000 and go up from there. This is a Google search for aritlces about this.

This is the AI created overview:

While the exact number is difficult to pinpoint due to limited public disclosure, it's estimated that around 135,000 federal workers have been fired or resigned as a result of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) workforce reductions. This figure includes both outright firings and voluntary departures, such as buyouts, that were prompted by the initiative.Additionally, there are plans for further reductions, potentially reaching a total of 285,000 lost jobs, according to some sources

Here’s a Reuters article:

Trump’s handling of Covid caused impossible to precisely determine loss of life and considerable suffering. “Approximately 450,000 Americans died from COVID-19 during the final year of Donald Trump's presidency, with studies suggesting that about 40% of these deaths could have been avoided if the U.S. had matched the death rates of other wealthy nations. His administration's response has been widely criticized for being inadequate and harmful to public health.” (AI generated)

Here’s a Scientific American article about this:

If 285,000 people died as a direct and incontrovertible of something a president did it would headline news. It would have to be something akin to the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki which caused 150,000 to 246,000 deaths. However, consider the following:

More than 14 million additional deaths are projected to occur globally by 2030 due to cuts to USAID, including over 4.5 million children under the age of five. These estimates are based on the significant reduction in health and humanitarian programs previously supported by the agency. (AI generated)

People tend to respond emotionally to human interest stories, to accounts of how a person who they would relate to was effected by trauma. These stories take numbers, in the most famous example the 6+ million people who died by disease, starvation, or murder in the Holocaust death camps, and focus on just one individual. Anne Frank is a good example. Anne Frank died of typhus at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

Right now in the land of the free and the home of the brave we have people hiding out for fear of Trump’s Gestapo. There may even be a 15 year old immigrant girl being hidden in someone’s attic.

I am not naive enough to think that one compelling story, one diary that could be published and made into numerous movies, could pull at the collective heartstrings of MAGA. That is the height of wishful thinking. Trump and his MAGA minions have no heart.

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April 27, 2025

.Combine DOGE and ICE and we could have an American Gestapo armed with both guns and computers. By Hal M. Brown - Trump could be Hitler with a giant mainframe database of undesirables who are poisoning the blood of America.

American ICE agents don’t look like they are members of the Nazi Gestapo. They wore plainclothes. Even so, whether in their black body armor uniforms carrying assault rifles and enough bullets to take on a drug cartel’s lair, or wearing ski maks and in plainclothes, they instill terror in people.

The photo above is from an article about the Gestapo in The History Place.

This is an excerpt from the RawStory article “DOGE could be headed for a 'a new, more dangerous phase' as Musk steps away”

A decision by billionaire Elon Musk to restrict his involvement in the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) that he created so that he can tend to his ailing Tesla automobile company does not mean that the damage being done by the DOGE staffers will be coming to an end.
According to Guardian journalist David Smith, their work is not done and, with Musk out of the picture as the face of DOGE, things could get a lot worse.
Conceding there is a feeling among some that the "lull" that will follow Musk's department is reason for relief, Smith wrote instead it "presages a new, more dangerous phase."

The following is from Chaos unleashed by Musk’s Doge is starting to wane – what does that mean? in The Guardian:

Last week Musk announced that he is hanging up his chainsaw and stepping back from his role overseeing the unofficial “department of government efficiency”, or Doge, to focus on Tesla, his beleaguered electric vehicle company. The news led some to hope the chaos unleashed by Doge is finally waning.
But it is just as possible that the relative lull presages a new, more dangerous phase. While Musk intends to reduce his schedule, he also said he would continue to work for Donald Trump for “the remainder of the president’s term”. On Friday CNN reported that Doge is building a master database to accelerate deportations of undocumented immigrants by combining sensitive data from across the federal government.
“It’s well established that they’re using the data not just to cut spending but to advance policy goals,” said Judd Legum, the author of Popular Information, an independent newsletter that maintains a Doge tracker. “As they realise there’s nothing left to cut that they want to cut or can cut, they’ll probably turn to more of those more policy-oriented initiatives.”

The actual Gestapo didn’t have the luxury of large mainframe computers and databases to track down their victims. At present the campaign to “purify” America depends on a variety of mechanisms to identify those it wants to get rid of. Some of them are hit and miss. They deport innocent people and even children who are citizens and this is bad PR. Damnit, they are inefficient!

DOGE stands for Department of Government Efficiency. The original idea was to save money and eliminate waste and fraud.

Wiki defines efficiency as “the often measurable ability to avoid making mistakes or wasting materials, energy, efforts, money, and time while performing a task. In a more general sense, it is the ability to do things well, successfully, and without waste.”

Trump has been upset, to put it mildly, that ICE hasn’t been as ruthlessly efficient as he promised it would be in his immigrant purge. DOGE created the fear and chaos he relishes at goverment agencies, but I doubt this has been enough for Trump.

Now it makes perfect sense for him to claim DOGE was a huge success in its original mission and to repurpose it to be the brains behind ICE. Of course, he’d never admit Tom Homan lacked the brainpower to do the job as Trump promised it would be done. After all, Trump never claimed Homan was an Einstein.

He just needed an assist from the INCEL DODE computer boys.

Consider what Hitler, and Heinrich Müller (shown below), who is not nearly was well known as Göring and Himmler, ran the Gestapo for most of the war, could have done with even the 1960’s computer below. Trump could be Hitler with a giant mainframe database of undesirables who are poisoning the blood of America.

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